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Dragonfly Macro

We found a field of dragonflies that were still warming up after a very cold night. There was almost nothing you could do that would make them fly. A great opportunity to use my 1:1 macro with a 1.4x TC to get some amazingly detailed macros like this one (straight from camera with no crop, twist, etc.). Used my Plamp to hold the grass stem the way that I wanted it & the dragonfly never even twitched. A rare opportunity.
As luck would have it, I also got several other rare opportunities and PAD keepers all on the same day including the best wildlife image I've ever gotten - a magnificent red tailed hawk. Take a look at http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/pad2ndsyear2 and tell me which of these plus the dragonfly abstract would have been your PAD choice.


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Steven Jusczyk18-Jun-2005 07:35
Incredible.
Dan Chusid18-Jun-2005 07:22
Just like the Master Plans!
Jeffery Stahlman18-Jun-2005 01:39
yery nicely captured one and all
petesie17-Jun-2005 20:19
My goodness, Ed, I should have such a problem. This is awesome, and so is the hawk image. Tough call.
Guest 17-Jun-2005 19:55
Ed, this is wonderful. Well done!
Funny we both did dragonflies and their thumbs landed next to each other.
I prefer this one to the Red-tailed hawk.
Cheers!